| 2002 | Parley Baer, actor, dies at 88 |
| 2002 | Arne Mellnas, composer, studied, taught orchestration at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, musical language filled with diverse moods |
| 2001 | Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, started a major cosmetics company, dies at 83 |
| 2001 | Norman Granz, American Musician |
| 2000 | Cyril Clarke, British Scientist |
| 1998 | Henry Hampton, documentary maker, Eyes on the Prize, dies at 48 |
| 1997 | Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg), dies at 63 |
| 1997 | Michael Hutchence, rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37 |
| 1997 | Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Joanna Moore, actress, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun), dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Mark Lenard, actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1996 | Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Ray Blanton, American Politician |
| 1995 | Ambrose Sam, creole accordionist, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies |
| 1994 | John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | L V Johnson Singer, dies |
| 1994 | Norma Donaldson, U.S. singer and actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68 |
| 1993 | Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59 |
| 1992 | Gene O'Donnell, actor (Ape, Miracle Kid), dies of lung cancer at 81 |
| 1992 | Sterling Holloway, U.S. actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Jac de Jong, Dutch MP/composer/businessman (Nedac-Sorbo), dies |
| 1989 | Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon |
| 1988 | Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1988 | Janet Ertel, crooner, dies |
| 1988 | Luis Barragan, born in Mexico City, Mexico, architect, modernist, minimalist, important 20th century architect, significant landscape designer, self-taught, influenced by writings of Ferdinand Bac, dies |
| 1987 | Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies |
| 1986 | Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73 |
| 1986 | Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Scatman Crothers, actor (Shining, Zapped), dies at 76 |
| 1983 | Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58 |
| 1982 | Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Enny, Engelina, de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka), dies at 84 |
| 1982 | Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1981 | Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74 |
| 1980 | Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87 |
| 1980 | Malando, Arie Maasland, composer/orchestral leader (Ole Guapa), dies at 72 |
| 1980 | John William McCormack, American Politician |
| 1979 | Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63 |
| 1977 | Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies |
| 1976 | Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59 |
| 1971 | Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65 |
| 1969 | Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1967 | Edvin Kallstenius, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies |
| 1963 | Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69 |
| 1963 | Bikram Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General (Kashmir), dies |
| 1963 | C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64 |
| 1963 | Daulet Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General, dies |
| 1963 | John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 |
| 1963 | NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II), dies |
| 1963 | William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87 |
| 1963 | Aldous Huxley, English Novelist |
| 1963 | C. S. Lewis, English Author |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46 |
| 1956 | Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies |
| 1955 | Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1955 | Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60 |
| 1954 | Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian United Nations ambassador, dies at 70 |
| 1954 | Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65 |
| 1944 | Arthur Stanley Eddington, dies |
| 1943 | Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY |
| 1943 | Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1940 | Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67 |
| 1936 | Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher, dies at 86 |
| 1924 | Herman Heijermans, Jr., author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies |
| 1916 | Jack London, author, dies at 40 |
| 1906 | Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies |
| 1904 | Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies |
| 1902 | Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide |
| 1902 | Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1900 | Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58 |
| 1900 | Arthur Sullivan, British Composer |
| 1896 | George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor (Ferris wheel), dies |
| 1896 | Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1890 | Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77 |
| 1871 | Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned |
| 1859 | Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist and composer (Faust), dies at 75 |
| 1852 | August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1826 | Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1825 | Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies |
| 1813 | Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1803 | Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57 |
| 1799 | Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed |
| 1782 | John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies |
| 1782 | John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies |
| 1781 | Frederic Phelypeaux, French earl of Maurepas, dies |
| 1781 | John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57 |
| 1776 | Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1773 | Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48 |
| 1751 | Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1718 | Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast |
| 1716 | Gosbert Cuper, classical/regent, dies at 72 |
| 1694 | John Tillotson, British Theologian |
| 1617 | Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies |
| 1594 | Martin Frobisher, English Vice-Admiral/explorer, dies |
| 1247 | Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood") |
| 950 | Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies |
| 365 | Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies |
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